Race Quotes

• It's been a really worthwhile test, ... We worked on getting into the corners a bit quicker and we made a lot of progress with some improved front fork settings. To lap in 1m 57s on race tyres is a massive step forward and much better than I could have ever expected.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Progress
  • Corners
  • Worthwhile

• Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.

  

  Barbara Katz Rothman
  • Imagine
  • Project
  • Controlling

• When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Hair
  • Winning
  • Olympic Games

• Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Christian
  • Chance
  • Born

• The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Hops
  • Last Man

• One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Humans
  • Certain
  • Amount

• Normally with any of the races, we go a bit early to get used to the time zone and acclimatize. We'll have a couple of days to see the places. My favorites so far are Montreal and Abu Dhabi. With Abu Dhabi, the facilities are excellent and the weather is always good.

  

  Valtteri Bottas
  • Time
  • Good
  • Couple

• The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think the ways young white Americans are engaging hip-hop suggest something more.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

  

  Augustus
  • World
  • Race
  • Conquerors

• Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

  

  Tessanne Chin
  • Persons
  • Born
  • Issues

• I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say - I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Response
  • Reporter
  • Operating

• I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

  

  Sete Gibernau
  • World
  • Winning
  • Ends

• I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.

  

  Paula Radcliffe
  • Women
  • Race
  • Prefer

• I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Community
  • Race
  • Represent

• My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Identity
  • Race
  • Potential

• Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Driving
  • Race
  • Racing

• It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Moving
  • Risk
  • Humans

• A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Human
  • Race
  • Motto

• It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Winning
  • Quiet
  • Steady

• I have no formula for winning the race. Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. Jesus said, 'Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. If with all your hearts, you truly seek me, you shall ever surely find me.' If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • Winning
  • Hearts
  • Kingdom Of God

• All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • People
  • May
  • History

• I like being able to race against the other challengers with their cars.

  

  Anthony Collins
  • Race
  • Cars
  • Challengers

• I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • World
  • Remember
  • Happy

• By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • World
  • Done
  • Mankind

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